Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman

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Duncan Norman. Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman

I – THE DOCTOR

II – A ROUND of BLEAK COASTS

III – SHIPS in PERIL

IV – DESPERATE NEED

V – A HELPING HAND

VI – FAITH and DUTY

VII – THE LIVEYERE

VIII – WITH The FLEET

IX – On The FRENCH SHORE

X – SOME OUTPORT FOLK

XI – WINTER PRACTICE

XII – THE CHAMPION

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Doctor Wilfred T. Grenfell is the young Englishman who, for the love of God, practices medicine on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. Other men have been moved to heroic deeds by the same high motive, but the professional round, I fancy, is quite out of the common; indeed, it may be that in all the world there is not another of the sort. It extends from Cape John of Newfoundland around Cape Norman and into the Strait of Belle Isle, and from Ungava Bay and Cape Chidley of the Labrador southward far into the Gulf of St. Lawrence – two thousand miles of bitterly inhospitable shore: which a man in haste must sail with his life in his hands. The folk are for the most part isolated and desperately wretched – the shore fishermen of the remoter Newfoundland coasts, the Labrador “liveyeres,” the Indians of the forbidding interior, the Esquimaux of the far north. It is to such as these that the man gives devoted and heroic service – not for gain; there is no gain to be got in those impoverished places: merely for the love of God.

I once went ashore in a little harbour of the northeast coast of Newfoundland. It was a place most unimportant – and it was just beyond the doctor’s round. The sea sullenly confronted it, hills overhung it, and a scrawny wilderness flanked the hills; the ten white cottages of the place gripped the dripping rocks as for dear life. And down the path there came an old fisherman to meet the stranger.

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“Does you think she’ll die, zur?” asked the woman, anxiously.

I did not know.

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